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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has proven himself a hypocrite by not
supporting the rule of law or the Constitution in his support of granting
citizenship to the 12 million-plus illegals who have invaded our borders.

A hypocrite, as I lauded
Paul for his Mr. Smith Goes to Washington-style
filibuster condemning the Obama administration’s use of drones to kill American
citizens on American soil.

Other so-called GOP
leaders to stand with Rand include, but sadly are not limited to: Gov. Chris
Christie (NJ), Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), and Cong. Paul Ryan (WI).These Republicans are not leaders but capitulators willing to
sell their souls to save the party and their own cushy-tushy jobs. And worse
yet, all four are early leading contenders for the 2016 GOP presidential
nomination.

The Paul support for citizenship varies
somewhat from Rubio’s support for citizenship in some of the details, but let’s
not get mired in the muck. Bottom line, granting 12 million illegals citizenship
will never stem the tide of illegals swarming our borders, but instead
encourage even more to invade the United States.

The plan by which Rubio has signed on
as part of the Gang of Eight calls for increased border security and a
strengthened E-Verify system for employers to confirm potential hires bona
fides. Paul’s plan actually eliminates the E-Verify system as a part of his
Libertarian belief system, making it an even weaker plan. Paul’s plan does
include shoring up border security, but calls his plan “trust but verify,”
which may have worked for President Ronald Reagan with the Russians, but hasn’t
a snowball’s chance in Guam of working with illegals.

In fact, the Supreme Court will decide
an Arizona voter law this spring that tightens the requirement for potential
voters by having to prove American citizenship versus simply signing a form
saying they are citizens.

Arizona Attorney General Thomas Horne
referred to the current system as “essentially an honor system. It does not do
the job.”

“People who want to vote illegally may
think nothing of committing perjury by declaring themselves citizens on a piece
of paper.” (“Justices Dubious of Arizona Voter Law,” USA Today, 03/19/13)

Regardless of how one slices it, de
facto amnesty or official amnesty, 12 million invaders rewarded for illegal
behavior is a slap in the face to those future Americans who have “stood in
line” and followed the law to become legal residents and citizens the proper
and legal way.

Sen. Paul said he believes his plan
will be embraced by conservatives and his TEA Party followers and that only
with conservatives on board could such a plan succeed. Paul is wrong to think
that true conservatives – Constitutional conservatives – would ever support such
a plan.

Short of deporting illegals, which even
I recognize would be tremendously challenging, the only way to shrink those
numbers is via self-deportation. The problem with self-deportation is that
neither the Democrats nor the Republicans want to actually do their jobs and
make this happen for fear of alienating voters and again, losing their
cushy-tushy jobs.

Self-deportation can occur when federal
and state governments shut off the spigot of “free stuff” for illegals – seats in
public schools, medical care, food stamps, welfare, and drivers’ licenses. The
flip side of government is the public sector – employers – who should be fined
for every illegal they hire, the equivalent of a minimum wage salary for a
year. The illegal worker should also be fined and deported.

For the GOP and RNC chief Reince
Priebus to suggest that supporting a path to citizenship for 12 million
illegals will move the party in the right direction is terribly disingenuous.
If anything, it declares that the party of Lincoln, Coolidge, Eisenhower, and
Reagan is on its knees begging for Democrat scraps at the voting polls.

It also runs counter to the $10 million
Priebus announced the RNC will spend to conduct community outreach amongst
blacks and Hispanics. Hispanic-American citizens should be insulted by the
notion that 12 million illegals, a majority of whom are Hispanic, will be
rewarded for their illegal behavior, when so many others became citizens by
following the law.

Blacks, many of whom are at the lower
end of the income ledger, should not applaud the legalization of the 12 million
as competition for jobs will become even more challenging in an already
fledgling economy.

If the GOP is to make inroads in the
black and Hispanic communities, it needs to appeal to the conservative sides of
those populations. Not that they are any more monolithic than any other
community, but many blacks and Hispanics are pro-life, church attending folks
who prefer that less money be sent overseas to countries that don’t like the
United States and that illegals not be allowed to steal potential jobs form
their constituencies.

Until Congress – from both sides of the
aisle – is willing to do their job – create disincentives for illegals – even at
the risk of losing their precious seats; and until employers are willing to put
greed on the back burner, illegal immigration and invasion of our borders will
remain a paramount issue.

We the people need to demand
politicians not support amnesty or a path to citizenship for illegals and
demand they seal the borders or they will find themselves unemployed come next
Election Day. It’s our country. Let’s stop surrendering it before there is
nothing left to surrender.

Friday, March 15, 2013

In the topsy-turvy world of what passes for right in
Obama-land more and more states are allowing illegal aliens to pay in-state
tuition while veterans of the United States Armed Forces are being denied that
same right.

If you are not as apoplectic as I am, read it again. If you’re
still not fully disgusted you have neither a soul nor a brain and you are
beyond redemption.

Let’s start with the illegals and remind people, once
again, as I have done so often, that those who are here in the United States
illegally have broken the law and should neither be in this country, nor in a
college classroom.

The federal government should deny all funding to any
state institution of higher learning if said schools admit illegals in the
first place, let alone at in-state tuition rates. In order to receive in-state
tuition privileges, prospective students must prove they are legal residents of
a given state. How can they do that if they are in the country illegally? They
can’t, unless they have forged documentation, another crime.

On the disgraceful flip side of this myopic coin is the unconscionable
disrespectful behavior with which American veterans are being treated. And for
the veterans it is a double dose of disrespect.

First, back in January, the Associated Press reported
that because oft-moving military members rarely have permanent roots, proving
residency has become increasingly difficult and schools are denying them
in-state tuition benefits. This has unfortunately led to several lawsuits,
taking time and money from veterans who can ill afford either, to be declared
in-state residents of states where they are seeking their degrees.

“It’s been paid for – with blood and sweat and tears and
deployments,” said former Army Sergeant Hayleigh Lynn Perez in filing a $10
million lawsuit against the University of North Carolina Board of Governors after
being denied North Carolina state residency. (AP, 01/06/13)

“For the first time since the inception of the GI Bill,
residency for tuition purposes is now an issue for thousands of veterans,” said
Jason Thigpen, founder and president of the Student Veterans Advocacy Group.
(AP, 01/06/13)

These are veterans of the United States Armed Forces
being screwed over. They have made the sacrifices few ever deign to make. They
are not asking for free tuition, just to be recognized as residents of a state
for tuition purposes. The veterans are not looking for handouts, but instead, a
hand up in an effort to better themselves to make themselves more marketable to
avoid being dependent upon the government, something that ought be encouraged,
not made more challenging.

This country is bending over backwards to placate
illegals while it is treating its veterans with such utter disdain and
disrespect. For those who are alumni of state universities, call them, e-mail
them, send a smoke signal, and inform them, should they grant illegals in-state
tuition privileges, you will cease all financial contributions.

Additionally, the money that state schools are using to
give illegals tuition discounts should go to veterans for their in-state
tuition – they earned it. The money we the people don’t give our alma maters
should go to in-state tuition funds for the veterans. Let’s afford veterans the
education they have earned. After all, they put their lives on the line while
we enjoyed campus life, now it’s payback time.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

The subjugator in chief, Barack Obama, is fond of making a
public stink out of any uncomfortable situation in an effort to get the biggest
bang out of the people’s bucks.

Ceasing tours of the White House and disappointing thousands
of school children will certainly vault the issue of sequestration to the rank
and file and place it squarely in the living rooms of the American people for
maximum effect. So too will closing national parks, removing border agents from
their posts, and releasing thousands of illegal aliens from prison have a
similar negative “photo-op” effect.

Yet in each of those cases, Obama, the man with whom the
buck should stop, has wiped his hands and taken no responsibility. Instead
Obama placed it anywhere but upon his own narrow shoulders and pointed one
finger at the Republicans in blame and the middle finger at the American
people.

Fellow Democrat and former President Harry Truman is no
doubt rolling over in his grave in shame.

For years the so-called mainstream media was enamored
with referring to President Ronald Reagan as the “Teflon president,” as
supposedly nothing stuck to him. Yet in reality, it is Obama who has managed to
dodge more blame and responsibility than an A-plus student of Patches O’
Houlihan. (“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”)

Not limited to the following, but Obama pushed the blame
of Benghazi on to a video hardly anyone saw, deprived an American due process
for it, and then hung Susan Rice out to dry. Obama can be blamed for costing
Rice the Secretary of State post more than Rice herself, although she was the
wrong choice in the first place.

Obama ordered the release of thousands of illegal aliens
even before sequestration kicked in and yet, blamed the very program he himself
initiated. And then sprung said release on Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) at
the last minute. With the rocky relationship Obama has had with Brewer, is
anyone convinced this wasn’t retaliatory for the way she showed him up in the
past? Yes, Obama is just that petty.

Yes, Obama is petty enough to place even more American
citizens at risk by allowing the already porous borders to become even more
sieve-like by having Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ratchet up
the fear-mongering by threatening the layoff of border agents because of
sequestration – Obama’s baby.

And yes, Obama is petty enough to throw thousands of
children under the bus – the very busses they would be riding to the White
House for their tours only to find the doors locked, again due to Obama’s
sequestration. Yet, this time, Obama places blame on the Secret Service for
making such a decision. This was Obama’s decision, claiming the $70,000 a week
cost for operating the tours of the people’s house was a victim of
sequestration, something he also blames on the GOP. However, when Fox News
personalities Eric Bolling and Sean Hannity offered to pick up the tab for one
week apiece out of their own pockets, the response from White House spokesman
Jay Carney was nothing short of the sound of crickets.

While school children are denied access to the people’s
house, three White House calligraphers are being paid a collective $270,000 and
the Obama’s dog walker rakes in an additional $100,000 per annum. With the
advances in technology, isn’t there a font that can simulate calligraphy for a
hell of a lot less? After all, Obama hardly signs anything himself any more. As
for the dog, why aren’t Sasha and Malia handling that responsibility?

For those who will sneer at the questioning of a “mere”
$370,000, remember, that is the people’s money paid for via tax dollars, and it
could pay for five weeks of White House tours with 20 grand left over, if my
public school math serves me well.

Like his old dog, Obama cannot be taught new tricks.
Instead, his is a two trick repertoire – fear monger and blame anyone else in
an effort to keep his own hands clean. Mr. Obama, not only are your hands not
clean, they have salt water on them – the tears of the children who have been
denied a visit to the people’s house.